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By: I miss Joe Brunohttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/abortion-rights-supporters-squabble-over-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-695025
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:08:51 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/abortion-rights-supporters-squabble-over-bill/#comment-695025He would have brought this bill to the floor a long time ago. How long do we have to wait for the Dem leadership to get the guts to bring this critical piece of legislation to the floor? I feel like I have been giving money to NY women’s groups for years now on this bill. Well, that’s over. Especially Planned Parenthood and FPA. If Tracy Brooks still hasnt done the work that needs to be done to get this bill passed then she is wasting her time and my money. And since when do we wait for enough votes to bring a bill to the floor anyway? That’s not how this game works. I vote for candidates who support issues that I care about. How do I know their positions if they never vote on anything? Well, game over. If there is a republican out there who will support this bill, give a shout out. I’ll just send my money this year to you…..Hey, what’s Nick Spano doing these days?
]]>By: Rita Josephhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/abortion-rights-supporters-squabble-over-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-695019
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:04:51 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/abortion-rights-supporters-squabble-over-bill/#comment-695019The radical feminist biomedical paradigm that pertained at the time of Roe provided the theoretical basis for allowing doctors (many of whom are no longer sworn to the Hippocratic principle of nonmaleficence) to kill the child at risk of abortion in the name of saving the mother’s “health”. Claims that the child in the womb threatens the mother’s physical or psychological health are proving spurious.
Increasingly, such grounds are being recognized to have little or no medical validity in view of the rapid advances that have been made in holistic pre-natal health care for mothers and babies, and the phenomenal progress in obstetrics, in fetal medicine and in pre-natal and post-natal psychological care for mothers. The rational response to health-threatening pregnancy these days is to improve the availability and delivery of optimum pre-natal and post-natal healthcare.
Peer-reviewed research over the last decade has revealed disturbing evidence that aborting her child does not restore her/his mother’s health, that on the contrary, the loss of her child often exacerbates mental health problems leading to higher rates of drug abuse, self-harm and suicide.
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